Common methods of encryption – early methods and weaknesses
Rotation Cipher (Caesar Cipher) Enigma (Mechanical) RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) DES (Data Encryption Standard)
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Common methods of encryption – Current best practice
Common encryption standards RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) An asymmetric encryption algorithm, one of the earliest and most widely used. Its security relies on the mathematical difficulty of […]
Cryptography
Symmetric encryptionUses a single shared (private) key to both encrypt and decrypt data. It’s fast and efficient for large amounts of data, but both parties […]